Family whose son was murdered displays unbelievable act of empathy for killer

When Jessica Brown saw the news report detailing two separate stabbing events, one of which had occurred in her brother Edan’s neighborhood, her immediate thought was for the families involved.“I just thought to myself: oh, those poor families,” she recalls on this week’s episode of Gary Jubelin’s “I Catch Killers” podcast.Little did Brown realize that a few short hours afterwards, she’d receive the worst phone call of her life.“I got in my car and plugged my phone in and it just went absolutely ballistic,” she continues, adding that her phone had gone flat overnight.“I had to pull over because I thought, oh gosh, my phone’s malfunctioning.”That’s when she got the news.It was May 2010, and her brother Edan had been the one stabbed.He was dead, and his friend Anthony Jones was the suspect.“I don’t remember, but apparently I called my best friend screaming my head off,” she tells Jubelin.“I probably shouldn’t have been driving in that state, but I got to mom and dad’s safely.”While Anthony Jones was eventually arrested for her brother’s murder, he initially pleaded not guilty, a move that frustrated and distressed Brown’s family.Jones himself admitted to news.com.au that he “got up on the stand and made up a story” during the initial trial, which “really messed him up.”After the first trial, which took two years to eventuate, resulted in a hung jury, Brown and her family heard the devastating news that they would have to endure a second trial.“We thought it would be over on day dot because the opening line was the triple O call and like we were like, we know who did it, so why do we need to go through six weeks of court? And then we ended up having to do another trial after that.”Brown reveals that prosecutors had spoken to her parents about the possibility of trying for a manslaughter conviction instead, because of the possibility Jones may not be convicted of murder.“They were pulled aside and told, he c...